A high resolution fibre-fed échelle spectrograph for the Southern African large telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1157-1161

  Barnes, S I ^a   Cottrell, P L ^a   Hearnshaw, J B ^a   Albrow, M D ^a   Kershaw, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

chelle spectrographs; High resolution spectroscopy; Instrument design

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

INSTRUMENT DESIGN;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0037958650     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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